OSHA Conducted a Request for Information (RFI) back in 2008 that compared the effectiveness and overall costs of SDoC vs 3rd Party Conformity assessment, the full summary report can be found here http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=OSHA-2008-0032-0099 . While there was no clean data (products that were purely SDoC vs products that were purely 3rd party) available to draw firm conclusions, some of the findings were interesting:
- Recorded injuries from electrical equipment were double (per 100,000 workers) in the EU vs the US - A European study found that 58% of extension cords that were available for sale in the EU were sufficiently unsafe to justify a sales ban/product recall - In the 2008 RFI, OSHA estimated that implementing an SDoC system in the U.S. could cost the Agency approximately $360 million annually. In contrast, the current budget associated with operating the NRTL Program is approximately $1 million per year. Based on this estimate, operating an effective SDoC program would require OSHA to incur substantial additional costs. OSHA's current budget for all of its operations is about $558 million. Thus, based on OSHA's estimate, adopting an SDoC system would increase OSHA's entire current budget by more than 150%. Kevin Robinson On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 5:36 PM, McDiarmid, Ralph < ralph.mcdiar...@schneider-electric.com> wrote: > I'm drifting ever so slightly off topic now but . . . > > legislation certainly keeps NRTLs in business. I've long admired the EU > model, where manufactures declare compliance and are responsible for it. > Do we really need 3rd party certification in USA, Canada, Australia, etc? > I think the new approach directives and CE mark in Europe is working. > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > * Ralph McDiarmid* | * Schneider Electric ** | Solar Business* | > *CANADA* | *Regulatory Compliance Engineering* > > > > - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <sdoug...@ieee.org> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
